Books
Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of "Posting Book, with Tables for Calculating the Expense of Horses and Post-Boys" (1837), with annotations concerning journeys in Scotland.
Copy of Robert Spottiswoode, "Practicks of the Laws of Scotland".
Copy of S D Clough, "Backbone", with a 12-line inscription of Sir Harry Lauder on "my success".
Copy of Sir Augustus W Franks, "Notes on Bookplates" (1887) with author`s presentation note.
Includes pasted in letter, 1888, of John Lane to Walter Hamilton, with other letters loosely enclosed and pasted in.
Copy of Sir John Sinclair, "Observations on the Scottish Dialect" (London, 1782), with annotations in an unknown hand.
Copy of the first volume of Sir John Leslie, "Elements of Natural Philosophy" (Edinburgh, 1823), interleaved with notes of David Milne Home of Milne Graden.
Copy of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) by Walter Scott, with watercolour illustrations by Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown.
Copy of "Traditions of Edinburgh" (1825), by Robert Chambers, with double pages replacing cancelled leaves and the original text (concerning Hugo Arnot) supplied in manuscript.
Includes tipped in notes of Arnot`s son, and an anecdote, of Walter Scott to Robert Chambers which was incorporated into "Traditions of Edinburgh".
Copy of William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI, Part III" (1936), with marginalia of J Dover Wilson.
Copy, undated, of the printed text of Helen Bannerman, "The Story of Sambo and the Twins", with pencil sketches for illustrations.
With sketch book of Bannerman and copy of E H Aitken, "The Common Birds of Bombay" (1900), with four letters of Aitken to Mrs Bannerman who did part of the illustrations.
Corrected manuscripts of three poems, undated, in Gaelic of Maoilios M Caimbeul.
With inscribed copies of Caimbeul`s poetry collections, "Eileanan" (1980) and "Bailtean" (1987).
Corrected typescripts of Malcolm Slesser, "Red Peak: a Personal Account of the British-Soviet Pamir Expedition 1962" (London, 1964).
With three published works of Slesser.
Correspondence, diaries and literary manuscripts of Naomi Mitchison.
Cuthbert Lennox and Andrew Melrose, "George Douglas Brown" (London, 1903), with annotations of R S Craig.
Designs for book decorations, stage sets and garden buildings by William McLaren.
Includes a sketchbook, specimans of calligraphy and printed books designed or decorated by McLaren.
Diaries, albums and photographs of the Campbell, Login and Maitland Mackgill Crichton familes.
Drawing book of James Wright.
Contains early landscape exercises and a record of the Scottish token coinage designed by Wright, circa 1797 illustrated with his own drawings.
Ernest Pearson, "Polyglot Comparative Vocabularies", with index.
Extracts from printed sources and a transcript, made by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire, bound with two printed items., 1639-1640, 1825-1840.
Four music books.
Collection of 11 reels or marches and seven songs, transcribed/belonging to Margaret Robertson; "Of notes and there [sic] lengths", belonging to John Johnston; collection of 49 songs or reels for harpsichord, holograph Charlotte Ellis; volume of 28 tunes with ownership mark of Charlotte Ellis.
General order book of the Coastguard station at Belhelvie.
Contains copies of orders and papers of John J Arrow, Commander, Royal Navy, at Aberdeen.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom`s Cabin" (Edinburgh, A and C Black, 1853), with copy of letter of author to the publishers.
Including correspondence with and concerning the illustrator, M U Sears.
Interleaved copy of "Questions Addressed to Students of Natural Philosophy", (Aberdeen, 1830).
Containing answers in an unidentified hand on the interleaves.
John of Fordun`s "Scotichronicon", edited by W Goodall (Edinburgh, 1759), with notes by Professor D E R Watt preparatory to his edition.
Leaf of a letter of James Elroy Flecker to Trelawney Dayrell Reed.
Containing manuscripts of two Bathrolaire sonnets.
With a copy of "Bridge of Fire" (1907), in which the above sonnets were published.